do XML/XSD validation with Ant 1.5.4 and JDK 1.4.2. How?  
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E.Otter





PostPosted: 2005-7-18 10:35:00 Top

java-programmer, do XML/XSD validation with Ant 1.5.4 and JDK 1.4.2. How? Buried somewhere in the documentation for the 1.4 JDK is a statement that
the included XML parser class cannot do schema validation (DTD validation:
yes, Schema validation: no). However, I believe that Ant uses the XML
parser in its ANT_HOME/lib directory. You probably have an older xerxes.jar
and the your best bet is to delete that and download the latest xerces.jar
and drop it into the ANT_HOME/lib directory.

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> I really need to be able to validate XML against an XSD, using Ant
> 1.5.4 and JDK 1.4.2. It appears this is straightforward to do with the
> latest Ant release and/or the latest JDK, but not with the releases
> that I'm limited to.
>
> I noticed the "iso-relax" sourceforge project, which includes the JARV
> library (which contains the Ant task). This was promising, but it
> causes an NPE to be thrown in Xerces' XMLSchemaValidator class, and I
> have no idea why.
>
> I'm querying the ant-user mlist about this, but I figured this would be
> another good place to try.
>